Steve Rogowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Rogowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogowski |
| SIGNATURE | ROGOWSKI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Local Government Association |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5510-9300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Towards critical child protection
In the UK social work with abused children and their families has long been subject to changing conceptions, policies and practices. Post-war concerns about child cruelty, ‘battered child syndrome’ and non-accidental injury have been superseded by the current concern with child protection. Such changes are linked to the dominance of neo-liberalism and associated managerialism, resulting in a narrower, truncated role for social work as practitione…
Participatory Ideology
Troubled and Troublesome Teenagers
In neoliberal and associated managerial times, social work in the UK is dominated by the speedy completion of bureaucracy to ration services and assess/manage risk. Concerning children and families, unless there are child protection issues little help or support is provided with parents/carers often told to change their behaviour/lifestyle or face the possibility of losing their children to adoption. To counteract this, we argue for critical and …
Postmodern Social Work
Postmodern Social Work: Reflective Practice and Education, Ken Moffatt Postmodern Social Work: Reflective Practice and Education, Ken Moffatt, New York, Columbia University Press, 2019, pp. 248, ISBN 9780231128018, $35.00 (p/b) Steve Rogowski Steve Rogowski Independent Scholar and Social Worker [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, bcaa066, https://doi.o…
Neoliberalism, austerity and social work with children and families
In the UK, neoliberalism and associated austerity have dominated social work and welfare provision over the last decade. Consequences include severe financial cuts to social work with children and families, as well as public services generally, and large increases in poverty and inequality. Despite increasing numbers of people in difficulty, the social work and welfare system has become more punitive and presents ongoing threats to social work’s …
Radical Hope
Community Development
In whose interest? The privatisation of child protection and social work
Transnational social work
Towards a Critical Feminist Practice with Children and Families
This article argues for a critical feminist practice in relation to social work with children and families, this being urgently required to provide help and support to such service users in male-privileged, neoliberal and managerialist times. Such practice is especially pertinent as far as teenage girls and their families are concerned. As an exemplar we focus on child sexual exploitation (CSE), and in turn adolescent girls in local authority car…
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy for social work with children and families
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had a significant impact on economic, political and social life in the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere. The neoliberal changes she initiated were continued and intensified by subsequent Conservative, New Labour and now Conservative-led coalition governments in the UK. She left a particular legacy regarding the welfare state and social work, the former being gradually being dismantled, while social work ha…
From Child Welfare to Child Protection/Safeguarding
Since the 1970s, dealing with child abuse has been an increasing feature of social work with children and families in the UK. Terms such as ‘battered child syndrome’, non-accidental injury and now child protection and safeguarding have increasingly dominated practice, rather than child welfare. In turn, practitioners have become increasingly embroiled in bureaucracy and subjected to managerial constraints aimed at rationing resources and assessin…
Critical social work in child protection/safeguarding
Social work in the UK is under ever more pressure to do the bidding of the government of the day, whether this is under New Labour with its targets and checklists, or the current Conservativeled coalition government’s authoritarian response to put ‘troublesome’ families on the straight and narrow by getting them back into work. Managerialism, and resulting bureaucracy and proceduralism, ever more dominates as managers control what practitioners d…
Critical Social Work with Older People in Neo-liberal Times
This article argues that the United Kingdom is institutionally ageist, a situation compounded by the current neo-liberal consensus embraced by all main political parties. It explores the concept of ageism, the practise of discrimination against older members of society. Involved is a discussion of critical gerontology, the role played by society in creating the condition of, and how this contributes to, the problematisation of old age. The role o…
Children’s Services
M. Hill, G. Head, A. Lockyer, B. Reid and R. Taylor (eds.) Harlow, Essex: Pearson, 2012 391pp. ISBN: 978-1-4082-3725-0 The need for professionals and agencies to work together is the current mantra
The Politics of Child Abuse
Nigel Parton Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan 245 p. (pb), ISBN 0-333-36316-17 This book was published in 1985, eight years after I had qualified as a social worker, and as with all of Nigel Parton’s
Managers, Managerialism and Social Work with Children and Families
Managers and managerialism have brought about a fundamental transformation in the way welfare organisations carry out government policy. What social workers now do is set and tightly controlled by managers, this reflecting the move away from the administering of public services to their management. It stems from successive Conservative and New Labour governments accepting the neo-liberal ideology that the market is superior to the state and that …
Classic Text Revisited
Young offending
Young offending is perceived as a serious social problem and always remains near the top of the political agenda. Over the post-war years, policy and practice moved from welfare/treatment towards punishment as the key for addressing the problem, culminating in New Labour's Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Thereafter there was increasing concern about antisocial behaviour. But is this an appropriate response? My research with young offenders suggested…
Towards a hundred issues of Critical Social Policy
Despite the current economic crisis facing the global economy we continue to be faced with the seeming triumph of global capitalism/ neo-liberalism. This is despite the great insecurity, difficulties and hardship that undoubtedly result for the majority of people. Social workers have to deal with many of the casualties of this system on a day-to-day basis, and I argue they require journals like CSP to provide a critical perspective on social poli…
Social work with children and families
Social work continues to be experiencing changes in its organisation and day-to-day practices. Notions of assessment, monitoring, evaluation and inter-agency coordination are to the fore rather than social work practice itself. In addition, we have seen the rise and now domination of managerialism. All this coincides with ideological changes over the last 35 years leading to the gradual demise of the welfare state. From a radical/critical perspec…
Youth crime and community based initiatives
The current debate about youth crime features hysterical criticisms about offenders going on “safaris” and other “holidays” and is dominated by the need to provide secure training centres for persistent offenders. This is despite the fact that research evidence points to the ineffectiveness of incarcerating young people, not least in terms of conviction rates. It is also, of course, inhumane and very expensive. It is timely, therefore, to re-exam…
Managers, Managerialism and Social Work with Children and Families
Managers and managerialism have brought about a fundamental transformation in the way welfare organisations carry out government policy. What social workers now do is set and tightly controlled by managers, this reflecting the move away from the administering of public services to their management. It stems from successive Conservative and New Labour governments accepting the neo-liberal ideology that the market is superior to the state and that …
From Child Welfare to Child Protection/Safeguarding
Since the 1970s, dealing with child abuse has been an increasing feature of social work with children and families in the UK. Terms such as ‘battered child syndrome’, non-accidental injury and now child protection and safeguarding have increasingly dominated practice, rather than child welfare. In turn, practitioners have become increasingly embroiled in bureaucracy and subjected to managerial constraints aimed at rationing resources and assessin…
Neoliberalism, austerity and social work with children and families
In the UK, neoliberalism and associated austerity have dominated social work and welfare provision over the last decade. Consequences include severe financial cuts to social work with children and families, as well as public services generally, and large increases in poverty and inequality. Despite increasing numbers of people in difficulty, the social work and welfare system has become more punitive and presents ongoing threats to social work’s …
Social work with children and families
Social work continues to be experiencing changes in its organisation and day-to-day practices. Notions of assessment, monitoring, evaluation and inter-agency coordination are to the fore rather than social work practice itself. In addition, we have seen the rise and now domination of managerialism. All this coincides with ideological changes over the last 35 years leading to the gradual demise of the welfare state. From a radical/critical perspec…
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy for social work with children and families
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had a significant impact on economic, political and social life in the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere. The neoliberal changes she initiated were continued and intensified by subsequent Conservative, New Labour and now Conservative-led coalition governments in the UK. She left a particular legacy regarding the welfare state and social work, the former being gradually being dismantled, while social work ha…
Critical social work in child protection/safeguarding
Social work in the UK is under ever more pressure to do the bidding of the government of the day, whether this is under New Labour with its targets and checklists, or the current Conservativeled coalition government’s authoritarian response to put ‘troublesome’ families on the straight and narrow by getting them back into work. Managerialism, and resulting bureaucracy and proceduralism, ever more dominates as managers control what practitioners d…
Troubled and Troublesome Teenagers
In neoliberal and associated managerial times, social work in the UK is dominated by the speedy completion of bureaucracy to ration services and assess/manage risk. Concerning children and families, unless there are child protection issues little help or support is provided with parents/carers often told to change their behaviour/lifestyle or face the possibility of losing their children to adoption. To counteract this, we argue for critical and …
In whose interest? The privatisation of child protection and social work
Critical Social Work with Older People in Neo-liberal Times
This article argues that the United Kingdom is institutionally ageist, a situation compounded by the current neo-liberal consensus embraced by all main political parties. It explores the concept of ageism, the practise of discrimination against older members of society. Involved is a discussion of critical gerontology, the role played by society in creating the condition of, and how this contributes to, the problematisation of old age. The role o…
Youth crime and community based initiatives
The current debate about youth crime features hysterical criticisms about offenders going on “safaris” and other “holidays” and is dominated by the need to provide secure training centres for persistent offenders. This is despite the fact that research evidence points to the ineffectiveness of incarcerating young people, not least in terms of conviction rates. It is also, of course, inhumane and very expensive. It is timely, therefore, to re-exam…
Young offending
Young offending is perceived as a serious social problem and always remains near the top of the political agenda. Over the post-war years, policy and practice moved from welfare/treatment towards punishment as the key for addressing the problem, culminating in New Labour's Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Thereafter there was increasing concern about antisocial behaviour. But is this an appropriate response? My research with young offenders suggested…
Youth crime and community based initiatives
The current debate about youth crime features hysterical criticisms about offenders going on “safaris” and other “holidays” and is dominated by the need to provide secure training centres for persistent offenders. This is despite the fact that research evidence points to the ineffectiveness of incarcerating young people, not least in terms of conviction rates. It is also, of course, inhumane and very expensive. It is timely, therefore, to re-exam…
Social work with children and families
Social work continues to be experiencing changes in its organisation and day-to-day practices. Notions of assessment, monitoring, evaluation and inter-agency coordination are to the fore rather than social work practice itself. In addition, we have seen the rise and now domination of managerialism. All this coincides with ideological changes over the last 35 years leading to the gradual demise of the welfare state. From a radical/critical perspec…
Towards a hundred issues of Critical Social Policy
Despite the current economic crisis facing the global economy we continue to be faced with the seeming triumph of global capitalism/ neo-liberalism. This is despite the great insecurity, difficulties and hardship that undoubtedly result for the majority of people. Social workers have to deal with many of the casualties of this system on a day-to-day basis, and I argue they require journals like CSP to provide a critical perspective on social poli…
Classic Text Revisited
Young offending
Young offending is perceived as a serious social problem and always remains near the top of the political agenda. Over the post-war years, policy and practice moved from welfare/treatment towards punishment as the key for addressing the problem, culminating in New Labour's Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Thereafter there was increasing concern about antisocial behaviour. But is this an appropriate response? My research with young offenders suggested…
Managers, Managerialism and Social Work with Children and Families
Managers and managerialism have brought about a fundamental transformation in the way welfare organisations carry out government policy. What social workers now do is set and tightly controlled by managers, this reflecting the move away from the administering of public services to their management. It stems from successive Conservative and New Labour governments accepting the neo-liberal ideology that the market is superior to the state and that …
Children’s Services
M. Hill, G. Head, A. Lockyer, B. Reid and R. Taylor (eds.) Harlow, Essex: Pearson, 2012 391pp. ISBN: 978-1-4082-3725-0 The need for professionals and agencies to work together is the current mantra
The Politics of Child Abuse
Nigel Parton Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan 245 p. (pb), ISBN 0-333-36316-17 This book was published in 1985, eight years after I had qualified as a social worker, and as with all of Nigel Parton’s
Critical social work in child protection/safeguarding
Social work in the UK is under ever more pressure to do the bidding of the government of the day, whether this is under New Labour with its targets and checklists, or the current Conservativeled coalition government’s authoritarian response to put ‘troublesome’ families on the straight and narrow by getting them back into work. Managerialism, and resulting bureaucracy and proceduralism, ever more dominates as managers control what practitioners d…
Critical Social Work with Older People in Neo-liberal Times
This article argues that the United Kingdom is institutionally ageist, a situation compounded by the current neo-liberal consensus embraced by all main political parties. It explores the concept of ageism, the practise of discrimination against older members of society. Involved is a discussion of critical gerontology, the role played by society in creating the condition of, and how this contributes to, the problematisation of old age. The role o…
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy for social work with children and families
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had a significant impact on economic, political and social life in the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere. The neoliberal changes she initiated were continued and intensified by subsequent Conservative, New Labour and now Conservative-led coalition governments in the UK. She left a particular legacy regarding the welfare state and social work, the former being gradually being dismantled, while social work ha…
From Child Welfare to Child Protection/Safeguarding
Since the 1970s, dealing with child abuse has been an increasing feature of social work with children and families in the UK. Terms such as ‘battered child syndrome’, non-accidental injury and now child protection and safeguarding have increasingly dominated practice, rather than child welfare. In turn, practitioners have become increasingly embroiled in bureaucracy and subjected to managerial constraints aimed at rationing resources and assessin…
Towards a Critical Feminist Practice with Children and Families
This article argues for a critical feminist practice in relation to social work with children and families, this being urgently required to provide help and support to such service users in male-privileged, neoliberal and managerialist times. Such practice is especially pertinent as far as teenage girls and their families are concerned. As an exemplar we focus on child sexual exploitation (CSE), and in turn adolescent girls in local authority car…
Transnational social work
Radical Hope
Community Development
In whose interest? The privatisation of child protection and social work
Neoliberalism, austerity and social work with children and families
In the UK, neoliberalism and associated austerity have dominated social work and welfare provision over the last decade. Consequences include severe financial cuts to social work with children and families, as well as public services generally, and large increases in poverty and inequality. Despite increasing numbers of people in difficulty, the social work and welfare system has become more punitive and presents ongoing threats to social work’s …
Postmodern Social Work
Postmodern Social Work: Reflective Practice and Education, Ken Moffatt Postmodern Social Work: Reflective Practice and Education, Ken Moffatt, New York, Columbia University Press, 2019, pp. 248, ISBN 9780231128018, $35.00 (p/b) Steve Rogowski Steve Rogowski Independent Scholar and Social Worker [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, bcaa066, https://doi.o…
Participatory Ideology
Troubled and Troublesome Teenagers
In neoliberal and associated managerial times, social work in the UK is dominated by the speedy completion of bureaucracy to ration services and assess/manage risk. Concerning children and families, unless there are child protection issues little help or support is provided with parents/carers often told to change their behaviour/lifestyle or face the possibility of losing their children to adoption. To counteract this, we argue for critical and …
Towards critical child protection
In the UK social work with abused children and their families has long been subject to changing conceptions, policies and practices. Post-war concerns about child cruelty, ‘battered child syndrome’ and non-accidental injury have been superseded by the current concern with child protection. Such changes are linked to the dominance of neo-liberalism and associated managerialism, resulting in a narrower, truncated role for social work as practitione…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Social Work (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works)